Mike Doyle is a longtime autistic, gay, Jewish, Disnerd Chicago blogger.
Media
Chicago Carless and Chicagosphere are both happy to be co-sponsors of tonight's Chicago Ugly Christmas Sweater Party, benefiting the Greater Chicago Food Depository and organized by Brad Flora, editor & publisher of the Windy Citizen.
Marina City
This week, it was tongue-in-cheek that I wrote about Marina City covering over its emergency evacuation posters with laundry room memos. The same night I wrote that, a fire broke out on the 29th floor of a neighboring residential high-rise on Wabash Avenue. Then last night, a major fire in a condo t
Chicago
Ever wish there were a website that listed every single holiday lights display in Chicago and the Chicagoland suburbs? (I know I have.) I'm happy to tell you, there is just such a website: Chicagoland Christmas Lights!
Media
Back in January, new-media marketing maven Chris Brogan (@chrisBROGAN) asked whether social media could save a business. In the face of the TARPconomy, He was hoping to help keep a Peabody, Mass., sandwich shop open. He wasn't successful. Last month, however, a local Chicago comic shop in economic d
Marina City
Monday morning now marks eight consecutive days that management here at the Marina City corncobs has covered the legally required high-rise emergency evacuation maps in the complex's East Tower with a cute-polar-bear-emblazoned laundry room memo.
Chicago
So my big bugbear question of the week is to ask why Chicago media--both straight and gay--who so clearly love to go on and on about heteros taking their clothes off and gay men dressing up as women, have no clue what to do when the ones showing skin up on stage are queer.
Chicago
This week, Windy Citizen editor & publisher Brad Flora (@bradflora) had a great idea--ask a group of local bloggers to throw their names behind a community Christmas party for our readers. It's an all-inclusive community holiday meetup--and if you're reading this post, you're invited!
Technology
The fully deserved death of a barely working AT&T DSL broadband modem in Chicago. By Hammer. On video. Any questions?
Urbanism
One of the things I shouted loudest when I first began Chicago Carless four-and-a-half years ago no longer applies. Back in mid-2005, I still carried around my New-York-native anti-surburban bias. On recent reflection, it's time to let the suburbs have their due. At least in Chicago.
Technology
But there are elements of Mac OS X I love. They won't motivate me to stick with the operating system, but I'd sure like to take them with me when I finish migrating to a new OS. Primary among them is Time Machine, Apple's point-and-click, behind-the-scenes backup functionality.
Media
(Update 2/23/10) Today, Bill Leff relinquished his weekend gig as host of WGN's ChicagoNow Radio. Here's a look back at my experience with Leff and his former radio show from last November. Back then, an angry Leff told me I was 'replaceable' a minute before air time. Ah, karma.
Chicago
An out-of-state community-branding consultant proposes a new Oak Park, Illinois, visitors bureau logo for the upscale, west-suburban town that looks a lot like...well...a phallus.